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Educational Institutions: Licensing

Mrs Madeleine Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will confirm how many publicly-funded colleges have been (a) granted and (b) refused international licences to run privately-funded courses in each year since 2008.

James Brokenshire: The number of publicly-funded colleges that had an application for a Tier 4 sponsor licence (a) granted and (b) refused, in each year since 2008, is: 20082009201020112012201320142015TotalGranted18833337333238215687Refused63613134711292An application may be refused for various reasons. We do not collate information on the courses each sponsor offers or the reason(s) for the refusal of each application.